re: Unable to Install Windows 2000 on SATA drive
Thursday, May 19, 2005 at 4:33 am
Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Curt R
(773 messages posted)
You need the drivers for the SATA drive on floppy and close to hand when you begin
the install process. When you see "Press F6 for SCSI....." you hit F6 and follow
the prompts and put your floppy with the SATA drivers in the floppy drive so the
system can copy them.
On Thursday, May 19, 2005 at 12:48 am, rgbbw wrote:
>I just built a new computer with A-Bit VA-20 Mobo, AMD Sempron 2500+ (Athalon 1600),
>512 MB RAM, and WD 120 GB SATA drive, with a CD drive and floppy drive out of the
>closet. I partitioned the bejebers out of the SATA, and installed 4 versions of
FreeDOS
>(OK, 1 in extended partition doesn't boot) and 1 version of Suse Linux, with XOSL
>multiboot loader running the show. After I was confident everything was stable,
I
>tried to Install Windows 2000 over one of the DOS partitions. It wouldn't recognize
>the SATA drive - reported I had no C drive. Try as I might with any of the partitions,
>it just wouldn't recognize it.
>
>I went to the MS support site, and found someone with a similar problem. MS said
>there was a problem with the W2000 install recognizing SATA drives, but they had
>a "hotfix" (meaning - no guarantees to be bugfree, unlike the rest of MS SW). I
contacted
>them with my problem, and they sent me a link to download the hotfix. Well, the
hotfix
>runs on the PC I don't have a problem with, not what I want. I burned it on CD and
>tried to run it on the PC with the problem, and it wouldn't run, as Windows 2000
>needs to be running first (Anybody see the movie "Catch 22"?). So I'm dead in the
>water.
>
>I wrote MS again and asked them how I resolve this problem, but they haven't answered
>me, and it's been over a week.
>
>I tried to install Windows 98 (maybe that would allow me to run the hotfix), but
>the setup says that I need to have at least 16 MB of memory to install, and quits.
>Apparently 512 MB isn't enough.
>
>Anyway, the Linux and FreeDOS are running great, and I get to play all those old
>DOS games I have from the 80's.
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